Sentence examples for authority to pay from inspiring English sources

If lawmakers fail to raise the debt limit in time, the federal government won't have the authority to pay for all of the spending that Congress has authorized, and could be forced to default.

There is authority to pay the bounty.

If you're nice, I have the authority to pay you three thousand dollars to leave".

But the state has no authority to pay a single cent for the bridge.

That suit said that the Obama administration lacked the authority to pay certain Obamacare subsidies.

He has also given Brown's subordinates new authority to pay foreign agents.

A Pataki administration official said later that the governor was referring to a plan to get the Port Authority to pay the city more money for La Guardia and Kennedy Airports, which the authority operates but leases from the city.

A renegotiated lease for the airports would probably require the Port Authority to pay more than $60 million annually.

"I suspect that Cuomo is going to ask the Port Authority to pay for something that's not an interstate facility," he said.

Mr. Miller said the federal government should restore millions of dollars in cuts to the Housing Authority to pay for the new security measures.

They said the developer also sought to get the Port Authority to pay for $200 million in improvements to the complex.